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Are We In Fact Melding With Machines?0
- Culture
- April 12, 2019
Here’s a headline worth pondering: “Chinese parents want students to wear dystopian brainwave-detecting headbands.” The story, on the website SupChina, details the latest innovation at the Jiangnan Experimental School in Hangzhou. Interestingly enough, the electronic headband, dubbed Focus EDU, is made by a Harvard-incubated American startup, BrainCo, based in Somerville, Massachusetts—right next to Cambridge. As the company’s chatty video explains, in a traditional
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Venezuela Should Shock and Teach this Generation 0
- Economics
- April 11, 2019
You are sick so you go to the hospital. There is no medicine. Diagnostic machines don’t work because the power is out. The lights aren’t on either. After nightfall, the whole place is pitch black. You can’t wander the halls. Too dangerous. Small wounds lead to amputation without anesthesia because there is no other way
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The Moral Preening of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez 0
- Politics
- April 11, 2019
Six months ago, it would have seemed impossible for the press to be more addicted to someone than they are to Donald Trump. Yet Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC) is clearly giving the president a run for his money. In breathless coverage that any attention-hungry celebrity would sell his own mother to achieve, the media dutifully informs
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The Intellectual Dishonesty of the Campaign Against the Electoral College 0
- History
- April 11, 2019
A full-blown war is raging against the Electoral College. But as activist groups become more desperate to overturn our way of electing presidents before voters go the polls in November 2020, their arguments become more absurd and hyperbolic. CNN recently ran a preposterous segment suggesting that James Madison called the Electoral College “evil,” a shameful
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How Women Can Determine Which Men Will Be Successful in Life 0
- Culture
- April 11, 2019
“What are your long-term goals in life?” is a typical question posed by employers to job applicants. It’s a question many people hate answering. But a young college-age friend of mine has the best answer I’ve ever heard. Without batting an eye, she regularly responds: “Be a trophy wife.” She has so much talent and
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Assange’s Arrest Threatens Global Press Freedom 0
- International
- April 11, 2019
Freedom hath been hunted round the globe. Asia and Africa have long expelled her. Europe regards her like a stranger, and England hath given her warning to depart. – Thomas Paine, “Common Sense,” 1776. Wikileaks publisher Julian Assange was dragged from the Ecuadorian embassy in chains this morning. The U.K. government plans to extradite
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